Mother gives birth more than 13 years after her son and daughter were killed

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Updated: 10:20 PM PDT Apr 14, 2017

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WEBVTT >> THE MELODY OF PROFOUNDHAPPINESS.1600 DELIVERIES EVERY YEAR.THIS WOMAN IS RARE.>> I WOULD HEAR THAT LULLABYCOOL OFF AND FOR SO MANY YEARSTO WISHED IT WAS FOR ME.>> THE NEWBORN IS FEELING A VOIDIN HER MOTHER'S HEART.>> I HAD ALWAYS HOPED BUT INEVER THOUGHT IT WAS IN THECARDS FOR ME.>> CARRYING THE SCARS OFMOTHERHOOD RIPPED SINISTERLYFROM HER LIFE.>> LAND-USE SLEEP, YOU DREAM.>> DUBLIN AND DAILY MURDERED ATTHE HANDS OF THEIR FATHER.>> IF I CAN'T RAISE MY KIDSNOBODY WILL GOOD>> DRIVE-IN I-80 IN 2003 DOUSINGHER WITH GASOLINE -->> NO, PLEASE DON'T DO THISPLEASE DON'T DO THIS.AND HE HAD A WRITER IN EACHHAND.>> SENDING THEM MOTHER ON FIREDWITH THEIR CHILDREN IN THE BACKSEAT.>> I AM TRYING TO GET HIS CARSEAT UNBUCKLED AND I HAVE NOSKIN ON MY FINGERS AND I'MTRYING AND I REMEMBER THEY WERECRYING.THEY WEREN'T MOVING.I WAS ON THE SIDE OF THE FREEWAYJUST SCREAMING, MY BABIES.>> BURNS COVERING 85% OF HERBODY NO MATCH FOR LOSS BEYONDHEALING.>> I WAS OBVIOUSLY HURT REALLYBAD AND I LOST MY CHILDREN.I HAD NOWHERE TO LIVE.>> 13 YEARS LATER A PRECIOUSBLESSING SHY OF HER 40THBIRTHDAY.DELIVERING A NEW WILL TO LIVE -->> I LOVE YOU -- GOD LOVES YOU-->> IN RESCUING A MOTHER'S HEART.

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Vallejo mother delivers miracle baby after set on fire

Mother gives birth more than 13 years after her son and daughter were killed

A Vallejo mother, burned in an intentional car fire that killed her two children, has received another chance at motherhood more than a decade after their murders.

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It was the week before Christmas in 2003 when Erin Weaver was going toy shopping with her ex-boyfriend, Mark Anthony Fregia, and their 6-year-old daughter Devlin Victory and 2-year-old son Daelin Anthony.

Weaver said due to a heavily abusive relationship, she split with Fregia and the parents were embroiled in a custody dispute.

“I think it was one of those, ‘If I can’t have you no one can, and if I can’t raise my kids, no one will,’” Weaver said.

But Fregia didn’t take the family to the toy store, instead he doused Weaver with gasoline as he drove along I-80.

“’No, please don’t do this. Don’t do this. Please don’t do this.’ And I look over and he had a lighter in each hand,” Weaver described.

Fregia set her on fire, with their two children in the backseat.

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Erin Weaver and her two children were driving with their father Mark Anthony Fregia along I-80 near Vallejo on Dec. 18, 2003 when he set Erin on fire, killing their 6-year-old and 2-year-old children.

“I’m trying to get (Daelin Anthony’s) car seat unbuckled, and I have no skin on my fingers. And I’m trying, and I remember they weren’t crying, they weren’t moving,” she said. “I was standing on the side of that freeway, just screaming ‘my babies my babies. He killed my babies.’”

BRIAN FONG, KCRA-TV

"6-year-old Devlin Weaver and 2-year-old Daelin Fregia were killed Dec. 18, 2003, when their father Mark Anthony Fregia set their mother Erin Weaver on fire while driving I-80 in Vallejo."

Weaver suffered 85% of burns over her body.

"I was obviously hurt really bad, and I lost my children-- the only thing i had in this world,” she said. “I had no will to live whatsoever."

Fregia is serving multiple life sentences for the murders and attempted murder of Weaver.

“I like to sleep a lot because when you sleep, you dream and that’s the only time I get to see them,” Weaver said.

She explained she tried for years to have children again and lost hope.

“I would be in the hospital, and I would hear that lullaby go off. And for so many years, I just wished it was for me,” she said. “I had always wished and prayed, and cried and hoped, but I never thought it was going to be in the cards for me.”

But a month shy of her 40th birthday, she would fall in love and become pregnant.

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Erin Weaver and gave birth to Kealani, more than 13 years after being intentionally set on fire, killing her two children Dec. 18, 2003.

"When God blesses you, he really blesses you. Like, it just came all at one time,” Weaver said. “I had not been happy or felt happy for-- all I knew was pain and sadness and tears and loss."